Peter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Peter wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Is the formatting of savetxt available with a string as the
>>>> destination?
>>>>>>>> If not, shouldn't this functionality be factored out of savetxt?
>>>>>>>>>> Have you tried using a StringIO handle?
>>>>>> Peter
>>>> Yup. But wouldn't it be cleaner to factor out this functionality and
>> make saving to a file use this?
>> I doubt it.
>> I would think from a code point of view no - taking filenames or handles
> means you can write everything using handle.write(...) statements, and
> send the data to disk (or a StringIO handle) gradually. This scales well
> with large data.
>> If you wanted a single code base to support filenames, handles, or
> output as a string I think you'd be forced to build a large string in
> memory, and then (if applicable) write it to disk (in one go). This
> won't scale well with large data.
>> Peter
Good point.